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Thai for Beginners
Author: Benjawan Poomsan Becker
Date: 1995
Pages: 262
Size:8-1/4 x 5-3/4 x 5/8″
Sound files: CD
Vocabulary: 880 vocabulary words + sentences
Dictionary: No

Overview: Thai for Beginners teaches speaking, listening, reading and writing at the beginner level.
Table of contents:
  • Guide to Pronunciation
  • Lesson 1: Greetings; polite particles; yes-no questions; personal pronouns; cardinal and ordinal numbers; the Thai writing system; consonant classes; determining tones in written Thai; middle consonants; long vowels; tone marks
  • Lesson 2: bpen, yuu (to be); more vowels; live and dead syllables; tone rules for middle consonants
  • Lesson 3: Colours; ja (future tense); daai (can) more vowels; complex vowels; final consonants; seven vowels that change their forms; tone rules for middle consonants (cont.)
  • Lesson 4: Telling time; high consonants; tone rules for high consonants
  • Lesson 5: Days of the week; months; tone marks with high consonants; low consonants introduced
  • Lesson 6: ao, yaak (to want); gamlang (to be …ing); tone rules for low consonants
  • Lesson 7: dai-yen (to hear); jam (to remember); noon-lap (to fall asleep); moong (to look); tone rules for low consonants (cont.)
  • Lesson 8: Body parts; everyday life’ special )))); silent hhhh
  • Lesson 9: Family and kinship terms; occupations; animals; how to use ddddd; other features of written Thai
  • Lesson 10: Comparisons; adjectives; classifiers
  • Appendix 1: Summary of the Thai writing system
  • Appendix 2: Test and writing exercises



Thai for Beginners Software

Author: Benjawan Poomsan Becker
Date: 2003
Note: Microsoft Vista and XP only
Size: 4-5/8″ x 3-1/4″ x 1/2″
Sound files: 3,000+ recordings (male and female)
Vocabulary: 880 vocabulary words + sentences
Dictionary: No
Overview: The contents are similar to the book version, only with interactive exercises.



Thai for Intermediate Learners

Author: Benjawan Poomsan Becker
Date: 2007
Pages: 211
Size: 8-1/4″ x 5-3/4″ x 1/2″
Sound files: 2 CDs
Vocabulary: 1200 vocabulary words + sentences
Dictionary: No

 Overview: Teaches vocabulary, sentence structure, and conversation.
Table of contents:
  • Guide to Pronunciation
  • Lesson 1: Directions; Thai place names; public holidays; provinces
  • Lesson 2: More directions; Bangkok place names
  • Lesson 3: Using
  • Lesson 4: using
  • Lesson 5: Using
  • Lesson 6: Using
  • Lesson 7: Thai names;food;desserts;English names used in Thai.
  • Lesson 8: More about kinship terms; pronouns
  • Lesson 9: Using particles
  • Lesson 10: The twelve year cycle; words from English
  • English translation
  • Test answers


Thai for Advanced Readers

Author: Benjawan Poomsan Becker
Date: 2000
Pages: 208
Size: 8-1/4″ x 5-3/4″ x 1/2″
Sound files: 2 CDs
Vocabulary: 950 vocabulary words + sentences
Dictionary: No
Overview: Thai reader with vocabulary list, definitions, and pronunciation guide.
Table of contents:
  • Guide to pronunciation
  • Part one: Passages in Thai: My family, When I was a student, Thai food, Thai geography, My hobbies, Songkran Day, My university life, Muay Thai, religions in Thailand, Loy Kranthong Day, Thai language, climate of Thailand, Hill tribes of Thailand, education in Thailand, Thai people in America, a brief history of Thailand
  • Part two: Practice reading the newspapers: Brief news, world news, horoscope, help wanted, advertisement
  • Part three: Miscellaneous Thai: Thai National Anthem, Buddhist prayer, tongue twister, Ai Mai Muan, Thai songs, Thai proverbs, Provinces in Thailand, the ten Asean countries
  • References
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